Posts Tagged ‘Depression’

Panic Disorder and Depression Can Be Treated Via The Internet

Friday, April 16th, 2010

panic attack pic Panic Disorder and Depression Can Be Treated Via The InternetAccording to a thesis at the Jan Bergström in Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy / CBT through the internet as effective in treating panic disorder, such as CBT group traditional based. It is also efficacious in the treatment of mild and moderate depression.

CBT internet based is also more cost effective than group therapy. Therefore, the results support the thesis that the introduction of the Internet treatment as regular psychiatric treatment, which is also the National Board of Health and Welfare recommends new guidelines for the treatment of depression and anxiety.

It is estimated that depression affects about 15% and panic disorder 4% of all people during their lives. Depression can include a number of symptoms, such as low mood, lack of feeling joy, guilt, apathy, difficulty concentrating, insomnia and zest for life is low. Panic disorder prevents a person to enter a place or situation previously associated with panic. Common symptoms include palpitations, trembling, nausea and a feeling that something dangerous will happen.

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How to Overcome Depression in Children

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

Depression in Children How to Overcome Depression in ChildrenYour child is 3 years old was not as cheerfully as usual, he did not ‘nosy’ when morning came, it is not impossible he also refused to eat.

Instead of joking with his brothers, or drawing in his book, he tends to be on the edge of the window, staring blankly out, maybe a toddler suffering from depression?

Like most other people, you might assume that preschoolers are too small to feel sad. But there are recent studies that clinical depression was found not know the age. Depressed – even suicidal – as influential in infants and adolescents as in adults.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine, suggested that the children experience the same symptoms as depression are often found in adults, even at the level of severity. According to the National Mental Health Association, one of three children in America suffer from depression. However, despite the talk about statistics, depression is a disease that remains undetected and untreated among children and adolescents.

Unlike the red spots on measles disease, or a red nose on the flu, symptoms of depression is not too concrete, and as a consequence, this is often not detected by parents.

What are the signs of childhood depression? What are the behaviors that need to be supervised by a parent? Usually the children who suffer persistent depression is always disturbed, withdrawn and lethargic, said Dr. Elizabeth Rody, medical director and child and adolescent psychiatrist for Magellan Behavioral Health in New Jersey.

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